Indiana's wetlands lure wildlife back to their ancestral home

With the announcement recently of a major initiative to acquire thousands of acres in Indiana to return them to their soggy, presettlement state, wildlife lovers predict more will be on their way. That's music to the ears of people like Lenore Tedesco, a wetlands advocate and director of the Center for Earth and Environmental Secience at IUPUI. Before Indiana was settled, 25 percent of the state was wetlands -- millions of acres of bogs, ferns, wet praries, swamps, dunes and marshes